Conservative Baseball Legend Refuses To Go PC – Even If It Costs Him The Hall Of Fame

Former major league pitcher Curt Schilling continues to find his name in headlines years after he retired from the Boston Red Sox. Much of that coverage, however, has less to do with his commanding fastball than it does his command of social media.

The outspoken conservative has weighed in on numerous social and political issues, often offending a significant segment of his audience each time. His ideology, Schilling has previously opined, could be a factor in whether he ever receives enough votes to be elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame.

Even if the cost is a coveted position among baseball’s elite, the Republican athlete confirmed in a recent interview he would never abandon his values. When radio host Stephen K. Bannon asked the former pitcher whether he could change his public position for the sake of professional recognition, Schilling shot back with his reply.

“No, you know the answer to that question before you even ask it,” Schilling said.

During a wide-ranging interview, the three-time World Series champion — who ranks 15th all-time among major league pitchers with 3,116 strikeouts — touched on the motivation behind his vocal partisanship.

“The Internet has kind of allowed me to go to a virtual library when I want to find out something about something,” he said. “And to not use one source but find multiple ways to research certain topics or subjects.”

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Acknowledging an inherent bias that exists in certain online forums against conservative thought, Schilling urged voters to make a concerted effort to seek out all sides of a debate before forming an opinion. “If you look around the Internet, the amount of fluff that’s posted hourly has to be staggering at this point,” he said. “I think the political system is counting on a dumbing down of the American people to make it go a certain way. And that, to me, is the opposite of what we want to do.”

Americans “want to be informed,” he concluded, insisting that “if you’re going to pull a lever and you’re going to cast a ballot for somebody, please have an idea and a reason why.”